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alluvium. The flint tools were made from knife-shaped laminae. 

 Three arrowheads with handles were found, hut n<j animal hones or 

 bone implements. 



72. JJin Bor. — This Epipaleolithic " site stands on the left hank 

 of the Oka River near Elina, 25 kilometers farther upstream frum 

 Murom. Discovered in 1878 by P, P. Kudriavtsev,*^ P. I. Boris- 

 kovskii in 1934 investigated the remains of the site on the sandy hill 

 I kilometer south of the village. The flint inventory '" consisted 

 mainly of elongated laminae, nuclei, scrajjers, chisels, arrowheads, 

 and many flakes. Xo hone implement or animal bones were found. 



yTf. Karacharovo. — A Lower Magdalenian statif)n on the left bank 

 of the Oka, about 3 kilometers upstream from Murom, was found 

 near tliis village. Discovered by A. S. Uvarov during 1877, Kara- 

 charovo was investigated by him together with I. S. Poliakov and 

 V. P>. Antonovich during 1877-1878. Situated on the left slope of 

 the Karacharovo ravine near its mouth, the Paleolithic remains lay 

 in the lower part of the loesslike loam at a depth of i. 0-1.5 m. The 

 cultural stratum, with a disorderly accumulation of animal bones, 

 covers the surface of about 1.5 sq. m. While mammoth remains 

 predominated, bones of RJiinoccros, Dos, and Ccrvits were also exca- 

 vated. The flint implements were made from boulders. 



74. Mcltinovo. — Fragments of bones of fossil animals and some 

 flint flakes were found in the valley of the Dolets, upstream from 

 Belev, along the Oka River, near Mcltinovo. The Paleolithic age 

 of the flints has not been determined. 



75. Okskaia. — K. Lisitsyn described an Upper Paleolithic station 

 in the alluvial deposit of the spring-flooded terrace of the Oka River. 

 The cultural stratum comprises broken and charred bones of Bos, 

 Sus, etc., fish vertebrae, and fresh-water Mollusca. It may well be 

 that this site should be attributed to a later era. 



76. Stcnino. — Mammoth bones and flint implements were found 

 in the vicinity of Kozelsk, along Trostianka brook, part of the basin 

 of the Zhizdra River. According to N. I. Krishtafovich the fauna 

 included mammoth, rhinoceros, elk, and deer. The flint and bone tools 

 were not described. The first report was in 1900 from I. Chetyrkin. 



jy. Skhodnia. — Part of a human calvarium was found during 1936 

 at a depth of 4.0 m. in the valley of the Skhodnia River, a left 

 tributary of the Moskva River, 12 kilometers north of Moscow during 

 the construction of the \'olga-Moscow Canal. According to G. F. 

 Mirchink, this find belongs to the end of the Wiirmian or to the 

 beginning of the following era. 



*' He collected surface specimens from local sand dunes during 1878- 1894- 



